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Cairo hosts tens of thousands of refugees from allover Africa. Many of them make their way to themega-city in hope for resettlement in a westerncountry. Although Ethiopians and Eritreans are one ofthe largest groups among these migrants, they arehardly researched. The author Hanno Terbeck spent sixmonths in the Egyptian capital to study their levelof integration into Cairene society. By using a mixof quantitative empirical as well as qualitativeresearch methods, he identifies three sets of factorsthat have a big impact on the refugees' successfulintegration: the Ethiopians' and Eritreans' legalstatus including their treatment by the Egyptianauthorities, the refugees' position towards theirintegration, and the Egyptians' perceptions of theEthiopians and Eritreans living in Cairo.This book addresses policy makers and researchers whowant to learn more about Ethiopian and Eritreanmigrants in Egypt, as well as everyone else who isinterested in refugee integration in urban centers ofdeveloping countries.

Author

Hanno, Terbeck.
Hanno Terbeck studied Geography at the Universities of Bremen andMünster with a focus on social geography, social disparities inurban spaces, and refugees. From January to June 2006, he workedas a research assistant at the Forced Migration and RefugeeStudies Department of the American University in Cairo toconduct field research for this book.